{"id":43,"date":"2002-08-14T02:53:08","date_gmt":"2002-08-14T06:53:08","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/wordpress.cephas.net\/?p=43"},"modified":"2002-08-14T02:53:08","modified_gmt":"2002-08-14T06:53:08","slug":"translucent-databases","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/cephas.net\/blog\/2002\/08\/14\/translucent-databases\/","title":{"rendered":"Translucent Databases"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Interesting <a href=\"http:\/\/www.oreillynet.com\/pub\/a\/network\/2002\/08\/02\/simson.html\">article<\/a> on oreillynet.com in response to the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.washingtonpost.com\/wp- dyn\/articles\/A2983-2002Jul25.html\">recent hacking<\/a> of Yale student admission information by Princeton.  The gist is that sensitive data that you don&#8217;t need to physically see, but only compare\/search\/parse should be put into your DB hashed.  Excerpt:<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;For example, what if a police department needs to build a database of sexual-assault victims that lets them identify trends but hides personal information? You could use a translucent database where the first column is the hash of the victim&#8217;s name, and the second column is a hash of their full address, and the third column is a hash of their block and street. You can now group incidents together by grouping entries with identical block hashes; you can see if the incidents refer to the same person by checking to see if those hashes are different.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>More information on translucent databases can be found <a href=\"http:\/\/www.wayner.org\/books\/td\/\">here<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Interesting article on oreillynet.com in response to the recent hacking of Yale student admission information by Princeton. The gist is that sensitive data that you don&#8217;t need to physically see, but only compare\/search\/parse should be put into your DB hashed. Excerpt: &#8220;For example, what if a police department needs to build a database of sexual-assault &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/cephas.net\/blog\/2002\/08\/14\/translucent-databases\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Translucent Databases<\/span> <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[2],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/cephas.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/43"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/cephas.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/cephas.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cephas.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cephas.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=43"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/cephas.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/43\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/cephas.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=43"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cephas.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=43"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cephas.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=43"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}